As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in
Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated
the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the
rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.

Despite international calls for a halt of illegal
settlement-building in the occupied Palestinian territory, the speaker
of the Israeli parliament, Reuven Rivlin, laid the first stone for a
project to build more units in a West Bank

A classified report commissioned by the United States Department of
Defense, states that the country wants access to Indian bases and military
infrastructure with the United States Air Force specifically desiring
the establishment of airbases in India.

In his latest book, Khushwant Singh wrote These
are dark times for India  fascism has well and truly crossed our
thresholds and dug its heels in our courtyard, he says.
Humra Quraishi asks him why he feels that way. Excerpts from the interview